Tyreis Holder is an Artist, Poet and Visual Storyteller from South London, with heritage reigning from Jamaican/St Vincent. She works in mediums pertaining to installation, textiles, performance, poetry, sculpture and sound.
Her practise centres around explorations of self and identity, the relationship with the mind, particularly within regards to navigating colonial spaces. Primary grounds for exploration explores how textiles poses as poetic language, functioning as a healing device- specifically in regards to trauma experienced by black women.
Bringing lived experiences into her practice, she aims to generate conversations around how social and intimate spaces are shaped through race, diffability*, community, class, sexuality and culture.
The word Text derives from the Latin words texere – meaning to weave. Poetry translates into garments, installations pose as poetry pages.
*She interchanges the word disability with diffability. The word disabled implies lack, ‘dis’ deriving from latin meaning ‘not’. The constant reminder of lack can have a negative psychological impact - Words have weight.
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Credits
partnership with HOME by Ronan Mckenzie
resources: glass, painting format: residency cycle 03 photography: Bruno Lança
